Wednesday, February 21, 2018

While you’re sleeping, college professors in Hungary are thinking about MAE WEST. Here’s a long, striking research paper you might have missed. This is Part 13.• • "Mae West. The Dirty Snow White" • • • • Written by: Zsófia Anna Tóth• • challenged and unhallowed social convention • • • • Zsófia Anna Tóth wrote: Through her creative output either as a writer or as a performer, West challenged and unhallowed social conventions and remained an emotionally, psychologically, socially as well as financially independent, strong, influential, free and empowering person. West clearly points out these things by saying: “I like movies about strong women. I was the first liberated woman, y’ know. No guy was gonna get the best of me, that’s what I wrote all my scripts about” (qtd. in Barreca 1996, 595). Moreover, in her autobiography, Mae West expressed similar ideas:• • Mae West wrote: [t]hey [men] soon discovered I would not conform to the old-fashioned limits they had set on a woman’s freedom of action. Or the myth of a woman’s need of male wisdom and protection. […] once they knew they could not change my philosophy or dominate me, none of them left me; my problem was actually how to get rid of them. (West 1970, 56)• • her comic discourse • • . . . • • This was Part 13 of a lengthy article. Part 14 will follow tomorrow.• • Source: Americana — — E-Journal of American Studies in Hungary; Vol. XI, No. 1, Spring 2015. • • On Wednesday, 21 February 1934 • •

• • It was on Wednesday evening, 21 February 1934, when the famed Mae West Jewel Robbery episode was dramatized on "Calling All Cars" over CBS Radio [without her personal participation in this traumatic drama]. Program #13 was sponsored by the Rio Grande Oil Company.• • Overheard in Hollywood • •• • My favorite is "She Done Him Wrong" — because Mae West fills a long-felt movie need and is better than swell.• • In Her Own Words • •• • Mae West said: "I have found men who didn't know how to kiss. I've always found time to teach them." • • Quote, Unquote • •• • An item in Time Magazine mentioned Mae West.• • Time reporters wrote: Mae West, who has not denied being 56, was still having trouble trying to settle down. "I'm still looking for the right man," she confided to the New York Post's Columnist Earl Wilson. "My trouble is, I find so many right ones, it's hard to decide." ...• • Source: "People" column by the Time Magazine staff; published on Monday, 21 February 1949

• •The Mae West Blog celebrates its 13th anniversary • •

• • Thank you for reading,
sending questions, and posting comments during these past thirteen years. Not
long ago, we entertained 3,497 visitors. And we reached a milestone recently
when we completed 3,800 blog posts. Wow!

• • By the Numbers • •
• • The Mae West Blog was started thirteen years ago in July 2004. You are reading the 3902nd blog post.
Unlike many blogs, which draw
upon
reprinted
content
from
a
newspaper
or
amagazine
and/
or
summaries,
links,
or
photos,
the
mainstay
of
this
blog
is
its
fresh
material
focused
on
the
life
and
career
of
Mae
West,
herself
an
American
original.• • Come up and see Mae every day online: http://MaeWest.blogspot.com/________Source:http://maewest.blogspot.com/atom.xml Mae West• • Photo: • • Mae West • • in February 1934 • •• • Feed — —http://feeds2.feedburner.com/MaeWestNYC Mae West

Tuesday, February 20, 2018

While you’re sleeping, college professors in Hungary are thinking about MAE WEST. Here’s a long, striking research paper you might have missed. This is Part 12.• • "Mae West. The Dirty Snow White" • • • • Written by: Zsófia Anna Tóth• • “queen of the bitches” • • • • Zsófia Anna Tóth wrote: Marybeth Hamilton, in another work, even calls her “the queen of the bitches” (1995, 136) which ― while obviously relevant to her eternal sexual enactment in performance of the gold-hearted prostitute ― it also has allusions to her queer identity and West’s strong relationship with and support of homosexual people and their rights in her contemporary American society.• • Zsófia Anna Tóth wrote: Mae West, contrary to the general belief, was a champion of egalitarian ideas and a defender of women’s rights. She stated that “I freely chose the kind of life I led because I was convinced that a woman has as much right as a man to live the way she does if she does no actual harm to society” (West 1970, 91). Far from being an outright feminist activist, she still contributed immensely to the amelioration of women’s situation in her times.• • challenged and unhallowed social convention • • . . . • • This was Part 12 of a lengthy article. Part 13 will follow tomorrow.• • Source: Americana — — E-Journal of American Studies in Hungary; Vol. XI, No. 1, Spring 2015. • • On Thursday, 20 February 1936 in Hollywood • •

• • There is a Joseph Breen PCA office memo, dated Thursday, 20 February 1936, in the "Klondike Annie" PCA case file. Alas, Breen felt that Mae West was "censorable" and he never let up.• • Overheard in Hollywood • •• • Mae West is to the New York stage what a match is to a scuttle of gunpowder — what a hot fire is to a shivering Wienerwurst.• • In Her Own Words • •• • Mae West said: "I've always been aware of sex, and it's always been aware of me."• • In Her Own Words • •• • Mae West said: • • Quote, Unquote • •• • The Chicago Sun Times mentioned Mae West• • A lucky reporter at the entertainment desk covered Mae's night club act for The Chicago Sun Times. Noticing the reaction of the males in the audience, the staffwriter noted that Mae West seemed to be able to rejuvenate even the most anemic old codgers who bought a ticket — — "wreathing middle-age males at the Chez Paree in their happiest leers since they leafed through Captain Willy's Whizz Bang or the Police Gazette." ...• • Source: The Chicago Sun Times; published on Sunday, 20 February 1955

• •The Mae West Blog celebrates its 13th anniversary • •

• • Thank you for reading,
sending questions, and posting comments during these past thirteen years. Not
long ago, we entertained 3,497 visitors. And we reached a milestone recently
when we completed 3,800 blog posts. Wow!

• • By the Numbers • •
• • The Mae West Blog was started thirteen years ago in July 2004. You are reading the 3901st blog post.
Unlike many blogs, which draw
upon
reprinted
content
from
a
newspaper
or
amagazine
and/
or
summaries,
links,
or
photos,
the
mainstay
of
this
blog
is
its
fresh
material
focused
on
the
life
and
career
of
Mae
West,
herself
an
American
original.• • Come up and see Mae every day online: http://MaeWest.blogspot.com/________Source:http://maewest.blogspot.com/atom.xml Mae West• • Photo: • • Mae West • • in 1936 • •• • Feed — —http://feeds2.feedburner.com/MaeWestNYC Mae West